Chapter 0328: Gerstner's Wonderful Use
Boss Tang is not arrogant, he is really rich now, not on paper wealth like bubbles blown out by stocks.
Christina's family capital structure, with the assistance of Tang Huan, has begun to bear fruit, and is trying to build a new consortium center in Paris.
As for the industrial structure of San Francisco-Los Angeles, Silicon Valley-Hollywood, and technology-entertainment operated by Tang Huan in California, it has already taken shape and is beginning to emerge.
This is the macro aspect, and the micro aspect changes even more from day to day.
Let's take Tang Huan's personal income as an example, in addition to the dividends of shares, the salary of positions, the copyright of works and other superficial income, the scale of profit from secretly speculating in the capital market even makes Tang Huan more and more jealous.
As this profit-making model gradually formed a system, the intelligence collected by his subordinates was compared with the memories of hundreds of elites in Tang Huan's mind, coupled with professional capital operations, resulting in a large profit every time he speculated.
Tang Huan didn't want to attract attention, so he had to control the scale of speculation, and disperse this part of the assets and throw them into the team, TV stations and other money-losing departments or traditional industries managed by his own women.
It is with this confidence that Tang Huan is now a well-known venture capitalist and angel investor in Silicon Valley.
Since he has a crush on Jay? Mina's multimedia platform is rudimentary, and Atari is not allowed to make trouble, and throwing money is the most powerful means to fight back.
According to Tang Huan's thoughts, Jay? Mina's team was first circled and cultivated, and when the sensitive time limit for peer competition avoidance was almost up, they were pulled over and assimilated.
Compared to being able to eliminate a future market competitor. It can also strengthen the results of its own technical strength. It's nothing to waste a little money in front of you.
Ultimately. Thunder? Casa, the CEO of Atari, is just Warner and its owner, Steve? Ross is just a working boy, if he really wants to get rich, how can he compare with a big boss like Tang Huan who has the confidence, and is destined to be bullied and retreated.
In fact, although Atari was robbed of the throne by Tang Huan's EA, its second-largest market position still made it a lot of money. Won the favor and value of Warner.
This is thanks to Tang Huan's intervention out of thin air, not relying entirely on plundering methods to squeeze Atari's space, but expanding the space of the entire video game industry.
For example, more than half a month after the release of "ForYourEyesOnly", its video game derivative "007" was also officially released by EA, and the response from dealers and users was very enthusiastic, which can be said to have made a good success model for the industry, giving everyone one more way to make money, and Atari quickly followed suit.
After "Raiders of the Lost Ark" got the first box office in its first weekend, "Superman 2" and "ForYourEyesOnly" stole the show in the middle. On the fourth weekend of July 5, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" occupied the first place at the box office again. And it's a jaw-dropping $10 million.
What this means, even the uninitiated, can understand, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is going to be a hot mess in terms of commercial performance, and it will continue to be released in theaters until all its value is squeezed out.
With EA's success with the 007 video game, and the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Atari began to talk about licensing.
Paramount, the identity issuer, did not get the first month in this regard, and gave Sega benefits in this regard, but gave it to Atari.
I have to say, Paramount's boss Charles? Bludonen did not integrate the company's resources under his name to give full play to the advantages of one plus one is greater than two, and missed many opportunities in the face of this rare video game market.
With the leadership of industry leaders EA and Atari, everyone seems to see the infinite bright prospects for the cross-field development of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, entertainment and technology, and the restlessness of capital is becoming more and more irrepressible.
For this kind of madness, Tang Huan could only smile bitterly, strictly speaking, he also played a role in fueling the flames.
This is the general trend, and the individual seems extremely insignificant in front of it.
But Atari, which is also the top existence in the industry, either follows behind EA's butt or jumps in front of EA to rob the house, and its performance really disappoints Tang Huan.
Don't you realize that if the market continues to develop in a disorderly manner, and there is no mechanism of checks and balances, everyone will be doomed together, and they will still die very well?
If EA falls into a trough, I still have mature and stable Zheru and Fangyuan Computer, and you are a bargaining chip for Atari, just by burning money to open a factory and R&D center in Silicon Valley, the little bit of qualification involved in the field of personal computers will not be able to continue to stand on its footing.
In Tang Huan's view, Atari and EA are fighting in the market, and they must tacitly work together to crack down on speculators who break into this industry, and upgrading the existing hardware platform is one of them, so that more customers can get a better game experience, so as to get rid of those shoddy goods.
But what Atari is doing now is not at all conscious of the industry leader, and like other followers, while savagely expanding, while staring at EA and figuring out what kind of money to come from.
In order to improve the ability to resist risks in the future industry recession, Tang Huan instructed EA to increase resources to develop the platform of personal computers in addition to home computers, arcade machines, and handheld computers, which actually only include Apple computers and Fangyuan computers, and even outsourced some projects to software developers of these two hardware platforms.
The biggest beneficiary of this initiative is undoubtedly Apple Computer, because the basic model of the second-generation Fangyuan computer with a memory capacity of 64KB has basically no room to continue after being reduced to about $3,000.
Only after the authorization of compatible machines is released, the cost of general parts will come down, and it will continue to approach the low-end market.
Obviously, no one will spend $3,000 to buy a second-generation Fangyuan computer that focuses on commercial use to play games, and AppleIIe is the most suitable hardware platform at the moment.
It is precisely with so much help from Tang Huan that Apple has become the target of IBM's fire, and the two are fighting to the death.
Especially Jobs, who turned on his taunt skills. Pull the hatred steadily. Often put Don? Estlic was so excited that he confronted him in the air.
Now is the time for the media to report on what's happening in the PC industry. Often put Steve Jobs and Don? Estlic's photographs are juxtaposed, and the two seem to be the absolute protagonists of this PC war.
It was in this situation that was inadvertently missed by the media that the monthly shipments of the second-generation Fangyuan computer exceeded 10,000 units at an astonishing rate.
At present, the front desk of many hotels in North America is equipped with second-generation Fangyuan computers, printers, card readers, digital fax machines and other equipment, which is the most representative application field of Fangyuan computers.
The second-generation Fangyuan computer, which is connected together via Ethernet, has further aroused the interest of large companies and institutions.
After a period of time, after the launch of Yi Peng/Holder workstations and servers, the second-generation Fangyuan computer will have its own back-end server, and its application field will undoubtedly be further expanded.
It is called planting a plane tree. Attracting the Golden Phoenix, Tang Huan is now digging up senior talents, and it is getting easier and easier.
For example, Louis Vincent Gerstner, the president of IBM in the 1990s, who created the miracle of "making elephants dance"? Vincent? Guo Shi Na ran over.
Born in 1942, Gerstner has a remarkable career experience, and after receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1965, he went straight to McKinsey & Company.
This company is very famous, and Tang Huan's companies have hired their consultants to provide services.
Gerstner spent 13 years at McKinsey & Company, becoming the youngest partner at the age of 28. At the age of 33, he became the youngest director of McKinsey.
By 1978, Gerstner was joined by McKinsey's client, American Express. Please go and serve as the executive vice president.
The current President and CEO of Amex is James Robinson III - James? Robinson III, who often made promises to his subordinates that "you take my seat", ended up working on his own from 1977 to 1993.
In the 1980s, Amex had a very successful credit card business, and it was actively expanding its investment banking business.
Just this year, Amex spent $930 million to buy Shearson Loeb Rhoades, the second-largest U.S. brokerage after Merrill Lynch.
The company's president, Sanford Weill, Sanford ? Will, got James too? Robinson III's promise of "succession", but after the dude found that he had no hope in the original time and space, he patted his ass and left in 1983.
In fact, this is the power trick and transaction in the mall, and it is not about who is right and who is wrong.
James, anyway? During Robinson III's tenure, Yuntong had a good momentum of development, otherwise Tang Huan would not have bought Yuntong's shares through the Shennong Fund and cut off Warren Buffett's Hu.
Gerstner discovering Sanford? Will also got James? After Robinson III's promise of "succession", the loss in his heart can be imagined.
In the original time and space, this workaholic endured until the end of the 1980s, and although his position was promoted, it had reached the ceiling.
In this time and space, Tang Huan naturally learned about Yuntong's big moves through the Shennong Foundation, so he asked the headhunting company he cooperated with to try to contact him, so he hooked up with the other party.
Needless to say, Tang Huan likes to appoint celebrities in the original time and space, and the bigger the name, the better, because of this peace of mind, the other party's temperament, temper, ability, ethics, etc., are obviously traceable.
For example, Simeone, Chambers, and Hawkins, who Tang Huan recruited in Silicon Valley, are now multimillionaires in the paper sense, but the three of them are still working hard like old scalpers, and Gerstner also belongs to this type of good subordinates.
Another point has to be mentioned that Hawkins, who is in charge of EA's daily affairs, is a relatively backward follower of Tang Huan, but the wealth he got surpassed the first two by leaps and bounds.
Regarding this kind of "unfairness", Tang Huan directly said, "Don't care about the temporary distribution, the next target for listing is Fangyuan Computer, and everyone can share the fruits again." ”
And the next situation is also what Tang Huan wants to see, these people do not have any grudges, and they still cooperate seamlessly, which is really commendable.
Tang Huan has always liked Guo Shi Na, because the other party is from a poor background and has a simple background, and his tough work style is also what Tang Huan's team leaders need.
In other words, with the increasing expansion of the foundation of Silicon Valley, Tang Huan needs more and more an iron-blooded prime minister with a black face and formula, and he can handle some tasks with a strong hand that he cares about the image of the leader and is not good at directly instructing.
In addition, in terms of business division of labor, the arrival of Gerstner can be called a timely rain.
With the gradual increase of various information management systems developed around database EBase, Zheru's penetration in the ERP application field is getting deeper and deeper, and the business knowledge required by it in terms of finance, management and so on is also out of Zheru's technical career.
In particular, the scale of this department has swelled too fast, to the extent that it cannot be ignored, and Tang Huan even intends to set up an ERP company similar to SAP in Germany.
With 13 years of McKinsey and 3 years of work experience in Express, Gerstner just meets the standard in Tang Huan's heart.
Of course, Tang Huan still has a bad taste that cannot be declared, if he can follow the historical development trajectory and export Guo Sner to IBM in the future, when the time comes, the fun will definitely not be small.
For these reasons, Tang Huan showed great enthusiasm for Gerstner's arrival, and took the other party to visit, have meetings, watch the ball, and even go to play golf for several days, so as to actively interact with him on different occasions and deepen mutual understanding.
After the communication was over, Tang Huan asked Guo Sner to serve as vice president, temporarily managing the ERP department and responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the entire consortium.
It goes without saying that Tang Huan will decide how to burden him depending on Guo Shiner's specific work performance.
In the meantime, Judy? Foster came to the door.
Looking at the other party wearing big sunglasses and walking cautiously, Tang Huan couldn't help but laugh, "You have suspended school, and now there are paparazzi tracking you?" ”
"If only I could get rid of these troubles so easily, I can't hide at home." Judy? Foster sighed melancholy, "I heard that you were in San Francisco, so I came to borrow the light of your big boss and take a break." ”
"Didn't you work in France, why don't you go to Europe to avoid the limelight?" Tang Huan asked sympathetically. (To be continued......)